Petitioners have urged City Hall bosses to stop allowing new housing to be built on green spaces in Bristol. While some countryside sites around the city have recently seen more protection from development, others are still at risk from hundreds of planned new homes.
After more than 7,000 petitioned Bristol City Council to stop building on green spaces, councillors debated how the city should find the balance between solving the housing crisis while trying to reduce carbon emissions and fight climate change, on December 10.
Nasim Dumont, presenting the petition, said it was an “absolute travesty” that green spaces were potentially being destroyed, and called on the council to prioritise new buildings on previously developed “brownfield” sites. The council is currently replacing its Local Plan, an important document setting out how and where major new developments should be built.
